Northumbria Police
A COMMUNITY hero has been praised by police after helping to recover a purse snatched in a robbery outside a care home.
At about 8pm on Wednesday, May 5, police received a report that a 37-year-old care home worker had been confronted by a man outside the property in the Walker area of Newcastle.
The stranger threatened her with a smashed bottle, grabbed her purse and then fled from the area on foot.
However, a Good Samaritan who was in the area at the time made off in pursuit of the suspect before catching up and forcing him to return the property to him.